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Japan is looking to other countries in its efforts to arrest the alarming decline in its high-quality scientific research. The strategy of funding selected institutions to boost their overseas collaboration is starting to bear fruit...

China’s rise is the story of the century in science. Its scientific output has already overtaken that of the United States, but on measures of quality, such as articles published in the high-quality journals tracked by the Nature Index, it still has a big gap to close...